Members of the Redwoods Happiness Initiative spread the joy to the tune of Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” at this year’s Fourth of July parade. Even though the group formed in 2012, its appearance at the parade marked its big debut for most locals. Del Norte Triplicate / Bryant Anderson

Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” soared above the crowd as the Redwoods Happiness Initiative rounded the corner at Third and H streets at the Fourth of July parade.

Adelina Ruth Bergren was born June 30, 2015, in Crescent City. She weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces and measured 20¼ inches. Her parents are Dexter and Kristin Bergren, of Crescent City. Adelina’s grandparents are Susan Waddell, of Crescent City; Cheryle Whetstone, of Mesquite, Texas, and Ed Bergren, of Crescent City. Her great-grandparents are Gerry and Jack Waddell, of Castaic, and Sylvia Good, of Crescent City.

Skylynn Fitzhugh was born July 6, 2015, at Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City. She weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and measured 21 inches. Skylynn’s parent is Sydney Fitzhugh, of Crescent City. Her grandparents are Tessa Newman and Ryan Fitzhugh, both of Crescent City. Her great-grandmother is Karen McMillen, of Crescent City.

Mark Standring, a 2011 graduate of Del Norte High School,ntly returned home from a successful two-year mission in the Germany Frankfurt Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lattery-day Saints. He reported for service on Feb. 6, 2013, to the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, for six weeks of intensive German language training, after which he traveled to mission headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Mark served in the cities of Cologne, Darmstadt, Wuppertal and Dortmund. He arrived back home in Crescent City on Feb. 28.

Cowbirds lay eggs in nests of much smaller birds, such as warblers and vireos, and let the foster parents do the child-rearing. Galawebdesign / Wikimedia

Those weird-looking creatures? Summer is when many fledglings appear and songbirds go quiet to rearing theirs

In the last column about spring migration I mentioned that in June birders would be looking for small songbirds like warblers, vireos and flycatchers from the east that get lost during migration. Well, several of these were found. First a least flycatcher appeared in the Smith River riparian area along Bailey Road near Fort Dick, then a red-eyed vireo was singing in the cottonwoods along the Klamath River in Klamath Glen. One thing led to another, and while enjoying the beautiful song of the red-eyed, a plumbeous vireo started singing in the same area, which was only the third record of this species in the county. Two eastern warblers also showed up here, a black-and-white and a chestnut-sided warbler. Finding one rare bird somewhere sometimes leads to more rare birds being found in the same area, simply because the area gets more coverage because of that rare bird being there and, consequently, more attention is paid to other birds there.